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22-08-201435 STORIES

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Economic Perspectives

Neoliberal anti-populism

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Digital disaster

A cyberattack by an unknown agent compromises the digital certificates issued by the NIC. As it is not clear how and who hacked the digital security i

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Lhasa: Height of contrasts

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What are digital certificates?

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Breathing room

With the creation of two new sanctuaries, Maharashtra shows the way for a fresh approach to conservation.

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Gujarat model: The real story

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Yudh: The story thus far

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Parivar & Partition

The lust for communal hegemony rendered impossible a sharing of power that could have preserved the precious unity of a great country. The Sangh Pariv

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Distorted lessons

If some textbooks published recently by the Gujarat government are any indication, right-wing ideologues and activists have started the saffronisation

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Reverse gear

The BJP reverses its earlier opposition to allowing more foreign investment in the insurance sector and this may well jeopardise the country’s economi

Justice restored

The Supreme Court restores a 1970 order relaxing norms in inter-departmental competitive examinations for S.C./S.T. candidates and upholds the constit

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People’s President

Joko Widodo becomes Indonesia’s first person from a non-elite, non-military background to win the presidential election, setting off charges of electo

A special relationship

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Not so smart idea

The smart city, a 100 of which the NDA government has planned, is a utopian concept that excludes completely the urban poor and promises infrastructur

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Manager’s musings

A detailed account of V. Krishnamurthy’s role in turning around several public sector behemoths.

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Voice of dissent

Arundhati Roy’s analysis of capitalism and its exploitative strategies is a vehement diatribe against neo-imperialism and the corporatisation of cultu

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Feeding on fear

The Muslim-Sikh riots in Saharanpur are a part and product of the politics of consolidation in which the Muslim leadership stokes the fear of a commun

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Massacre of the innocents

The flattening of Gaza by Israel has nothing to do with Hamas or terrorism. It is about never-ending control over Palestinian land by the occupiers an

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Peddler of myths

Social scientists fear that the new ICHR Chairman may revive the Sangh Parivar’s long-standing history rewriting project using Hindutva as a tool.

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Road to progress

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Award for Theodore Baskaran

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‘We are bridging the rural-urban divide’

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Sikhs vs Sikhs

Haryana constitutes a separate Sikh gurdwaras management committee, but the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab insists that the Amritsar-based SGPC is the

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Life term for school founder

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Testing time

Civil services aspirants are determined not to allow the aptitude test of the preliminary examination this year on the grounds that it privileges the

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House of cards

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Turmoil in Greater Arabia

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Development Issues

3P thrust

The CAG raises serious concerns over the viability of PPP projects and their overall cost and benefit to the government and consumers.

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Plane truths

The U.S. blames the crash of the Malaysian aircraft in Ukraine on Russia, with the agenda of further tightening the sanctions against Moscow and exp

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Anger on the streets

Governments, especially those of the U.S. and E.U. countries, have remained largely indifferent to the decimation of Gaza, while people across the wo

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Judges in the dock

Justice Katju stirs up a controversy by questioning the extension of service and promotion of an Additional Judge of the Madras High Court who faced

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BRICS and bouquets

The forum came of age at its summit in Brazil, but it can realise its full potential and establish its geopolitical importance only by achieving great

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Obesity epidemic

In the paradox that India is, malnutrition among the poorest is matched by obesity among the wealthiest.

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Yudh: The story thus far

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